"we'll change the things that need changing and that's all we'll change": the paSUKification of post-brexit politics 2021

Keir invokes the Queen. Nuclear. #pmqs

— Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) December 8, 2021

of course the best thing about PMQs is reading the imbecilic commentary on it by the lobby hacks who are too stupid to be even considered serious court jesters, but not watching it very often is a very good choice imo.

First name terms is it now?

Stratton's resigned as we all knew she would.

No-one knew what she was being paid for anyway.

Ok, so someone has resigned for letting cat out of bag i.e. telling a truth.

She’s a terrible person who will no doubt land on her feet, absolutely zero sympathy

On the one hand, I think that if heads have to roll this is probably one of the less important ones, on the other it is very funny to see bad people cry. https://t.co/6VCHaIlGEo

— Sinan Kose (@TheSinanKose) December 8, 2021

crying tears because she's temporally lost her £120k Spad position until another highly paid gig shows up boo hoo

Good statement from Sinan Kose.

Anyone who does what Stratton did is a terrible person.

Odd thing is it seems as though she never actually even started her job -- that expensive briefing room was only ever used for this practice briefing which has brought her down?

The way she has handled this -- she will be giving intimate and revealing interviews to the Sunday Telegraph in two month, monthly column in the Spectator, Times Radio regular slot by Easter - etc etc.

All too obvious.

Yes, bad people who will continue to thrive.

They simply cannot help themselves

I've known @AllegraCOP26 for years. She was a brilliant colleague on the show. As I would expect, she has done the honourable thing, and swiftly resigned. Whatever you think of what she said in the clip obtained by @itvnews, she is a model for many in modern politics...

— Robert Peston (@Peston) December 8, 2021

Whatever you think about the Downing St party, it a) clearly happened b) wasn't Allegra's fault c) she is genuinely remorseful, and has resigned with speed and grace. https://t.co/3EDgXTcTkP

— fleetstreetfox (@fleetstreetfox) December 8, 2021

🤮🤮🤮

Circle the wagons.

quick shift of focus to anonymous online trolls and ghouls being mean to decent honest AS

how is 12 months later resigning swiftly?

ITV News has confirmed they’ve had the video of Stratton for weeks and chose not to publish it, which I assume is completely unconnected to her being National Editor of ITV News until 2018.

so they had it pre the mirror publishing it's story?

Nationality and Borders Bill: 'two in every five people from non-white ethnic minorities (41%) are likely to be eligible for deprivation of citizenship, compared with just one in 20 people categorised as white (5%).' - @NewStatesman pic.twitter.com/ccfZ3UAHHS

— Media Diversified (@WritersofColour) December 3, 2021

there are jobs that cannot be done from home (e.g. all the jobs that make it possible for others to work from home), and as long as sick pay is £96/week & there’s no sign of a proper furlough scheme, all the govt are doing is ensuring that any spread is limited to the poor.

— josie sparrow (@ofthesparrows) December 8, 2021

Would also explain why the government are so insistent on forcing benefits claimants back into jobcentres

well just imagine how different this could be under a Labour govt i.e. even possibly worse!

Communism:

Thursday's Telegraph: “Don't go to work, but do go to parties” #BBCPapers #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/7FuHsAa3Vz pic.twitter.com/QrYbMdyWpf

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) December 8, 2021

I'd vote for almost any party that ran that headline as the crux of their manifesto

“almost” doing hevvy liftin’ yeah

LOL @ Sajid Javid's hilarious squirming on breakfast TV, he was "too upset" to appear on TV yesterday because he "didn't like" the video of Allegra Stratton and chums. Diddums.

Javo-two-zero was out of government during the period in question wasn't he lol. Poor-mouthing Ayn Rand worshipping sons of Pakistani bus drivers ftw

"Don't go to work but do go to parties" does indeed sound like a trap

Allister Heath is surely the poshest person to have a phonetically spelled name like that

Now that’s what I call a truth bomb

No shortage of people weeping for e.g. batoned protesters in Cuba or Iran who would be only too happy to see them getting whacked in the dome right outside their front doors

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) December 9, 2021

Scoop! Geronimo post-mortem examination finds no trace of TB https://t.co/ONww5IrJyZ

— John Stevens (@johnestevens) December 9, 2021

one step forward two steps backward

Down inna Kiethylon!

In Left Media News:

Aaron Bastani has been banned from Twitter.

I suspect it relates to today's Julian Assange hearing, but that's merely a guess.

wow there's two people I should really be supportive towards, but I can't stand either of them!

I've just been chuckling at some CLOWN on twitter with "Anarchist" in his bio who has posted that he will vote for Starmer Labour if they back PR.

The confluence of censortech and digital harassment campaigns is bad for journalism and bad for politics. I think we are very early in this turn and things are going to get quite a lot worse. https://t.co/MNBedRDbrm

— James B (@piercepenniless) December 10, 2021

The only comment I can currently find on this matter.

Rivkah Brown keeps getting suspended because her political enemies (Gnasher types) keep mass reporting her tweets.

Suzy: yes, I think it must be something related to that, after all. My reference to Assange was purely speculative.

Plainly a broad, deep and long-term issue inheres here: that freedom of political speech is at the mercy of foreign / multinational tech companies which have no accountability and whose interests are probably reactionary.

Spectacular use of brackets pic.twitter.com/j9uWLcy5Jp

— Ian Ford (@ij_ford) December 10, 2021

Deselections: Labour only wants yes-men, says blocked councillor: https://t.co/n8rgqnsyHi pic.twitter.com/iYaHqGKkAz

— Camden New Journal (@NewJournal) December 9, 2021

lol @ Forsyth's disgruntled brackets and he is so much the apotheosis of "punchable face"

I used to follow an account that got suspended about 8 times until they finally disappeared. But they did used to post libellous and frequently beyond the pale images of a certain ex-Labour, Tory appointed peer.

This is the tweet that got Aaron suspended. I've redacted the email address included in my tweet – a Novara address, ffs – that was presumably what Twitter deemed had breached its rules, so that this tweet isn't deleted again. pic.twitter.com/ryxYt6Qpwu

— Rivkah Brown (@RivkahBrown) December 10, 2021

This case is perhaps more ludicrous than sinister, though perhaps both.

This is absolutely ridiculous - Aaron Bastani’s Twitter account has been suspended - for including an email belong to his own media company in a tweet.

Can @Twitter please sort this completely absurd situation out please https://t.co/QkAPlGyCne

— Owen Jones 🌹 (@OwenJones84) December 10, 2021

What it takes

Largest Labour lead since 21st May 2019 (934 days).

— Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) December 10, 2021

let's bake a cake

Lol @ the white people wondering whether they will be deported.

I’m a naturalised British citizen. This stuff frightens me. pic.twitter.com/eAbGRNhSea

— Zesha Saleem (@zeshasaleem) December 10, 2021

it would be hilarious if one of these FBPEs that got an Irish passport through their grandparents got deported, but so not happening!

Not fucking interested

9/ Even better, maybe all the pseudo-Leninist "Kieth can't win and is a Tory" bullshit will just go away for a few hours/minutes? There's no reason whatsoever that the left can't now build a united platform, leadership and demands - if we want to....

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) December 11, 2021

Come on lol

oh wow he's toast

— Jonn Elledge (@JonnElledge) December 11, 2021

"Kieth can't win" was always incidental to "and is a Tory" and more a sneery response to his bad polling and what a horribly dishonest and feeble character he is, any cunt can win when they get the nod, Paul. "build a united platform" lol this fucking idiot really is on the spice.

a couple of weeks of bad press can cause this much of a polling rupture to the tories, imagine what it would do to Kieth who still is polling lower than Don't Know

the desperation of these feebs is pitiful, of course "you'll eat your words if Kieth wins" is wilful bad faith ignoring of the point. Blair won ffs

bemused at the reaction to this, as if he was plastered on the dance floor or something. have my doubts a photo of him on a zoom chat is going to make any further inroads whatsoever